The Name’s a Mouthful, But Just Because It’s Mousse Doesn’t Mean You Should Eat It.

I’ve never been one to put a whole lotta product in my hair.  Usually they leave my fine, wavy-ish blond (What?  Well, I didn’t SAY it was naturally blond, now did I?) hair looking and feeling dull as dishwater, and maybe a little crunchy, and sometimes they even give me these little hurty bumps on my scalp.  I guess my sensitive skin even extends up there. 

But I’ve been experimenting with some sassy new shorter looks lately, mainly in the interest of finding ways to avoid the dreaded ponytail scrape-back, which tends to be my default setting, hair-wise, and isn’t particularly flattering on a woman whose chin’s slowly fading into her neck.  Something about the balance is all wrong — and I end up looking like just the back half of a horse, if you know what I mean.

So anyway, horse’s patooty aside, these sassy shorter styles beg for a little extra oomph in the way of styling assistance, otherwise I end up looking like a tired-out coconut, all round and featureless with little spikey fly-aways sparking out of me like none-too-flattering porcupine quills.  So I’ve been experimenting and have found a product or two that work well for me.

I’m savin’ one of them for later, but today I’ll tell you about the first, Frizz-Ease ® Style Take Chargeâ„¢ Style Managing Mousse from the John Frieda Collection.  I use this one when I just want a nice, soft lift at the root and a bit of assistance in getting the hair shaft bent but not necessarily curled.  Makes sense?  Gives me a loose, flowing but controlled look. 

This mousse has a nice clean fragrance that goes away once my hair’s dry.  It leaves my hair with a nice shine but no dry stickiness, and I’ve noticed that unlike some other mousses and gels I’ve tried, it doesn’t cause my hair to look or feel dirty by day’s end. 

I squirt about a golf-ball sized dollop of foam into my palms and rub them together lightly, then I apply the mousse starting at the roots of my hair in the back and working around to the front (where you need less of it, according to my stylist, and I believe her because she is a hair PHEEEE-NOM, I tell you!) being extra-careful not to grind the stuff into my scalp.  Scalps don’t need lift or hold, people, just the hair, please.

And then I do my sectioning and my drying with a big old round brush.  Which takes forever in the summer, and that seems backwards to me but I guess it’s because of the humidity factor.  And my arms get tired, and I get all grouchy and sweaty, but that is by no fault of the mousse, you know?  The mousse is just doing its job, afterall.

Good little moussey.

Oh yes, and I can even skip a day washing my hair and just spritz a little water on my roots, perpetrate a foreshortened version of the drying routine and come out looking presentable and clean.  I like that.  And well — that’s like time in a bottle, y’all.

So if you’re in the mood for a moderate control styling product that won’t break the bank and’ll leave you with lift, shine, and a little extra time on your hands, give John Frieda’s ® Frizz Ease Take Chargeâ„¢ Style Managing Mousse a try.

Megan regularly blogs sittin’ out on her porch swing at FriedOkra.